>It's very easy to understand that content on a physical disk I own will not be scanned by some government-friendly surveillance program, and content I upload to somebody else's servers will. I am comfortable with [subsets of] my files existing on both sides of this distinction, but only because I understand it.
According to Apple, the only content being scanned are the images you are storing in iCloud. So how is this breaking your rule?
> According to Apple, the only content being scanned are the images you are storing in iCloud
Thats the whole point of this debate. TODAY (if you trust apple is honest) it's only stuff being stored in icloud. But there is no technical reason for this to be true - just a "policy" reason. The scanner is already deployed to devices, we already let in the trojan horse. Tomorrow, the rules could change (and we might not know)
This is breaking my "rule" because the detection is being moved device-side as part of a complicated scheme I don't believe it's realistically possible for an outsider to have a complete and persistently correct understanding of. Thus, I do not trust myself to fully understand the attack surface I'm exposing, and that is
something I'm not personally comfortable with.
I thought this was fairly clear from the later parts of my comment.
"The USA PATRIOT act will only be used against terrorist threats." 12 years later, Edward Snowden proved otherwise.
The world is a much different place than when I grew up in the 80s. I can't imagine what it would look like in another 40 years. I hope I'm dead by then, because it doesn't seem like it's going to a place I want to live in.
According to Apple, the only content being scanned are the images you are storing in iCloud. So how is this breaking your rule?